Exhausted by war, Israelis want one (or two) more front(s) addressed before it's over

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Dec 23, 2024 · 1m

Early Shabbat afternoon, we were chatting with friends who asked, “Did you hear about Tel Aviv?” We hadn’t. As we were off the grid for Shabbat, we had no idea that the Houthis had fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv in the middle of the night, that the IDF had failed to shoot it down (but by sheer luck, it did relatively little damage) and that our kids and grandchildren had spent part of the night, once again, in a bomb shelter.

Later in the day, I was at Mincha, by which time everyone had heard. I made some remark to a person next to me about how absurd a way this is to live, to which he…